Lego's most expensive set ever is the $1,000 Death Star

[Shawn Knight]

In a nutshell: Lego is now accepting pre-orders for one of its most impressive undertakings to date. The Lego Death Star features 9,023 pieces and comes with more than three dozen minifigures. It's also the company's most expensive set ever.

Lego says the set (item number 75419) is loaded with details and Easter eggs for fans to discover. Highlights include the crushing trash compactor that trapped Rebel heroes, the hangar that Luke Skywalker and Han Solo infiltrated while dressed as Stormtroopers, Emperor Palpatine's throne room, Princess Leia's holding cell, and the Death Star's Superlaser.

There's also a functional elevator, a tractor bean control unit, and areas to recreate classic scenes from the series including Leia and Luke swinging to safety from the retractable bridge and the Obi-Wan Kenobi vs Darth Vader Lightsaber duel.

Speaking of minifigures, the set includes fan favorites such as Chewbacca, Darth Vader, two versions of Han Solo, and Princess Leia. In total, you get 38 figures to populate the diorama.

You'll need plenty of space to display the piece. Fully constructed, the diorama measures 28 inches (H) x 32 inches (W) x 11 inches (D) and is one of the largest Lego Star Wars sets ever created. It's recommended for builders ages 18 and older although with some help, I'm sure children could get just as much enjoyment out of the set as adults. Should you need additional guidance along the way, the Lego Builder app affords a 3D digital view of the model as you build.

The new Lego Death Star is available to pre-order now and is due to launch on October 4 for an eye-watering $999.99. Lego doesn't put an estimate on how long it'd take the average builder to complete the set as skill level will no doubt vary based on experience.

For reference, the largest set I've ever worked on contained nearly 4,000 pieces and took my wife and me a couple of weeks to finish, working about an hour or so a day.

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Lego's most expensive set ever is the $1,000 Death Star

 

[stewi0001]

I never knew Shawn was married.

 

[CapNemo72]

So it is just round and not black?
Lame, because they could've actually do something awesome

 

[brunocasarini]

It would be more awesome it they made it in the shape of a ball that opens in half.

 

[Megalomaniac]

I'm from the belief that you use your imagination to build scenes and you do it with whatever blocks you own. These kits are cool but most of the price is licensing I have bins and buckets of Legos consisting of way more pieces and if I was trying to build scenes, I'd do it and probably make it bigger than this set.

 

[Aus spot]

I didn’t know injecting plastic into basic moulds and selling it in the partial shape of a movie prop was tech.

Yes it’s expensive, and nearly every scene has been released before as a seperate and better build, as have most of the mini figures.

It’s a huge let down to the star wars lego community.

Now let’s hear about the future consumer 30tb ssd.

 

[mbk34]

It’s a huge let down to the star wars lego community.

There's a star wars lego community ?????????

As in more than one person?

 

[trgz]

For collectors and not for kids (with rich parents) to play with anymore. The original two incarnations were less polished, but at least they were toys for kids. Massive sellout - but hey! that's absolutely anything to do with Star Wars (especially since 2005)

 

[ActualViking]

LEGO Star Wars isn't for me as I have never seen Star Wars as something special.

However LEGO in general is an amazing thing. It may be plastic, but it is made so well that you can build with bricks made decades ago and they are all good. It is a toy that can be passed on from generation to generation, not much else in the toy world one can say that about.

Over the last decade or two LEGO has gotten wise to there also being adults that likes to build things, so of course LEGO also makes sets for adults and just as important, they are also supporting the fan communities in all sort of ways - like being fine with there being places where you can buy individual bricks, functions that lets you input what sets you have and search out which other sets it means you have the bricks for...

Oh and as for there now being a $1K LEGO set, it might just be the tariff insanity is part of why it is like that.

 

[dangh]

It would be more awesome it they made it in the shape of a ball that opens in half.

It is already huge and takes significant amount of space, if that would be opened ball of that size you'd have to have a dedicated room for it. It would be probably more manageable if you could just put a 5 slices of that ball on the walls or so, still, woo large.

Thankfully Disney made sure I wont see anything interesting in this IP anymore (with the way they made Luke a total ***** and 'somehow, Palpatine survived' bs), but there are other sets I would be more interested with. And there as well is growing competition to Lego, where I could get some better sets for less.

 

[Vulcanproject]

Inevitable copy on Aliexpress for $250 incoming

 

[OortCloud]

Lego these days isn't really Lego. The pieces are almost always specific and fit for only 1 purpose.
The whole point of Lego was to build amazing things out of square blocks, not to build amazing things out of block shaped exactly like the real thing. You might as well just have 2 massive 'blocks', one for each side of the Death Star, clip them together and call it done.

 

[Starfals]

It would be more awesome it they made it in the shape of a ball that opens in half.

THIS THIS THIS! I wish it was. That would have been seriously epic.

 

[ActualViking]

Lego these days isn't really Lego. The pieces are almost always specific and fit for only 1 purpose.
The whole point of Lego was to build amazing things out of square blocks, not to build amazing things out of block shaped exactly like the real thing. You might as well just have 2 massive 'blocks', one for each side of the Death Star, clip them together and call it done.

You have got that wrong. Modern LEGO lets you build structures that are far more advanced that when it was just square blocks, it is just the more advanced part also means it is less intuitive than just the square blocks. This then also lets you build much bigger and stronger structures than you could with just the blocks, you should give it a go.

Yes, there is some pieces which are odd shapes only they are not one set pieces - they are just less generic so they won't have use in any build you can think of.

Also there is lots of resources online, like people sharing their own made sets and instructions on how to replicate them. There is even sites that let you pit in what sets you have, so it lets you search what other builds, official or community ones, you have the bricks for. And if you're missing specific pieces there is sellers making those available, mostly for tiny money.